Wikipedia Covers April Fool's Hoaxes 129
vladd_rom writes "Wikipedia maintains an up to date list with April Fools hoaxes from this year. The list already includes hundreds of entries. Among the most popular, one could find Google Romance, a new Google.com project, Google Browser, as well as Yahoo!'s desire to buy all Web 2.0 companies on the web. However, it seems that this year hoaxes will be more interconnected: the wiki page already includes some websites that announced that they have been bought by Yahoo!, and linked to Yahoo!'s blog post from their pages."
Back to Green (Score:1)
interconnected hoaxes (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Back to Green (Score:2)
Yeah - but it will take a while for the retina burn to recover...
Re:Back to Green (Score:5, Funny)
At least someone has a sense of humor (Score:5, Insightful)
Alas ye olde pinkdot, we barely knew ye. Return unto us hither in a better life, anew.
I laughed out loud when I read that one.
After reading the vitriolic posts on Slashdot today, you'd think someone had pissed in everyone's Wheaties. It's just April Fool's Day. The editors of Slashdot wanted to have some fun. They do a great job of providing geek fodder 365 days a year, and this is the one day of the year they get to goof off. Maybe it could have been done better. Maybe it could have been done worse. Still, I don't really understand why everyone has become so unhinged.
The site is FREE, and unless you're in a really bad domestic situation, nobody is pointing a gun at your head, forcing you to read Slashdot. If the site makes you go into a homicidal rage every April Fool's Day, get stoned, sit in a corner, and don't point your browser at Slashdot for 24 hours. Better yet, come up with some witty responses like Kethinov's, rather than all of this foaming at the mouth, all caps nonsense. Nothing is more ludicrous than reading some mouth-breather's spelling-deprived, syntax-challenged account of how fucked up Slashdot gets on April Fool's Day.
Re:At least someone has a sense of humor (Score:3, Informative)
Re:At least someone has a sense of humor (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe it could have been done funny
Re:At least someone has a sense of humor (Score:1)
Re:At least someone has a sense of humor (Score:2)
Two words; "evil bit"
Re:At least someone has a sense of humor (Score:2)
If you include the dupes, they do a great job of providing geek fodder over 800 days a year.
Re:Back to Green (Score:1)
They can see again! Slashdot made this miracle!
(But as this was the same Slashdot that blinded me, there is no credit at all...)
Re:Back to Green (Score:1)
Re:Back to Green (Score:1)
But that just shows that techies mostly do not care about user interface design, or indeed estethics.
Re:Back to Green (Score:1)
It's obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Chuck Norris rides horses, not ponies. He kicked slashdot so hard that it turned green.
Re:It's obvious (Score:1)
Re:It's obvious (Score:3, Funny)
I move that the "ponies" tag supersede the "bullshit" and "gay" tags.
Re:It's obvious (Score:2)
Re:It's obvious (Score:2)
ObSlasdot: You must be new here^W^Hborn.
No... (Score:2)
Darnit (Score:1)
Google Romance (Score:2)
Here on the Google Romance team, we follow the philosophy "Don't be medieval," so we brought only the latest psychographic and search algorithms to bear on the problem of hooking up our users. First you fill out an extensive personal profile carefully designed by a team of both married and single Google engineers for the express purpose of gathering and analyzing romantic information. Then you fill out an equally obscure and elaborate profile describing various attributes of the p
Re:Google Romance (Score:2, Informative)
Ya never know...
Re:Google Romance (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Google Romance (Score:2)
Well, you know how when you do a regular Google web search, you get back uncannily accurate search results?
5. Usually. But sometimes they're a little off.
Yeah, that's why our early testers thought that Soulmate Search's "Did you really mean...?" feature came in very handy.
6. What is Contextual Dating?
It's a free date plus the added accrued value of the past decade's worth of post-Industrial Age online marketing genius, all tied into a real-time, video-based, GPS-tracked, psychogr
Noooo! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Noooo! (Score:1)
Re:Noooo! (Score:2)
All is well again.... (Score:4, Insightful)
And by the way, I posted this already [slashdot.org]
For your foolish crime... (Score:2)
"From the Citadel of Ultimate Darkness, oh Silver Dragin, bring forth to this plane PomyPuff, demonic spawn of cuteness, to do thy will!"
The list is a Hoax! (Score:2)
Do not read warning! (Score:2)
Re:Your fault (Score:1)
Re:Your fault (Score:2)
Well, that and I can power my deathray from the moron-antimoron energy thus produced .
Pug
/. April Fools Jokes (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:/. April Fools Jokes (Score:1)
zzzzzzzzzzzz
and for good measure: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Re:/. April Fools Jokes (Score:1)
Unfortunately,you belong to the addict demographic (Score:4, Interesting)
Those of us who do not take Slashdot so seriously, however, shall either be amused or indifferent, and very unlikely irked.
You suffer from the same problems of the Democratic/Republican bases--sure their leaders keep screwing them over, even they're the ones who put them in office, but their unwillingness to vote for someone else is precisely why the voting blocks will always be ignored by those they vote for.
Re:Unfortunately,you belong to the addict demograp (Score:2)
Re:Unfortunately,you belong to the addict demograp (Score:1)
I always look forward to this day, can't wait till next year.
Re:Unfortunately,you belong to the addict demograp (Score:2)
Re:Unfortunately,you belong to the addict demograp (Score:2)
Re:Unfortunately,you belong to the addict demograp (Score:2)
What about those of us who find ourselves horribly blinded?
Hot pink on white, FFS?
Re:/. April Fools Jokes (Score:2)
Still pink? (Score:5, Funny)
At least my typing skills are still omysvl//////
Re:Still pink? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Still pink? (Score:1)
Get Your Pink Ponies Here (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Get Your Pink Ponies Here (Score:5, Informative)
For FF 1.5 with Slashdotter 1.2.2 extension. Adds functionality for: Copy it to replace the one used by the Slashdotter extension in your FF profile files (for Windows users, that's in your Documents and Settings folder.)
Re:Get Your Pink Ponies Here (Score:2)
Looks like the Slashdotter extension will have ponies by default in a future version.
From here [mozilla.org]:
Thanks man! I love the ponies ;)
Re:Get Your Pink Ponies Here (Score:2)
actually google had a more subtle APR-1 joke today (Score:2)
Slashdot's best (Score:2)
Wikipedia even talks about the evil bit [wikipedia.org]. I hope Slashdot remembered to set the evil bit to on before posting their Pink style sheets. CSS now means Crippling Stye Sheets.
Thanks God it's over... (Score:5, Funny)
I used to love April Fools hoaxes, but it's become lame. Attention! A HOAX IS NOT FUNNY WHEN EVERYBODY KNOWS IN ADVANCE IT'S A HOAX!!!! If you want to do an April Fool hoax, make at least a token effort to suprise your audience. Like this email, which got delivered to every employee of a certain large hitech company this morning:
I immediately fired back a letter pointing out that it would be more efficient to simply fire employees with non-unique names. Of course, I didn't remind them that I have a long, unusual name...Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Where was that single hoax among the serious articles that sucked you in, until you did the double-take and realise you'd been 'had'? I expected something intelligent from /., something subtle. Instead we got 3000 comments about PONIES.
For shame /.
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:1)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Geesh. When did geeks get so friggin' uptight?
Cheers.
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:1)
Do you every READ
I like PICKLES!!!
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Really? I suppose they "capable of" is accurate....
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Welcome to slashdot, "you must be new here"(TM). Seriously they do it every year, and every year, people complain. If they haven't stopped by now, they probably won't next year, so just avoid slashdot on april fool's days.
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
The survival instinct will make the readers doubt every single story they read, scarred by memories of their first time surfing the net on april fool's day.
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Um...
That was pretty stupid of you.
Maybe you should adjust your expectations. Personally I thought this was the best April Fool's Slashdot has done in recent memory. Certainly better than when all the articles were dupes about the Evil Bit, which I thought ruined the IETF's otherwise-very-funny joke.
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:2)
Not any more
Re:Worst - April - Fools - ever.... (Score:1)
What kind of immigrant family has a pony?!
Next april fools (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Next april fools (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Next april fools (Score:2)
* Replace the Slashdot front page with some sort of error message typical of Windows error messages. Let the real front page get through every 1,000 visits or something.
* Reverse the moderation system. I.E. all "good" moderations actually count negative.
* AJAX-ify the living shit out of the front page.
* Trade domains with Digg for a day.
Etc.
April fools day is supposed to be a day where you see if you can fool people. Not a day where you make jokes. I'll admit, the Pon
Fool me once shame on.. (Score:1)
If people weren't notified right away that their moderation wouldn't count, but, say, a day later this could really work on some people; they'd be moderating all say. ;)
A more elaborate verion of this idea would be to seemingly allow *every* slashdotter to post news which would even show up on the(ir modified local) main page.
Re:Fool me once shame on.. (Score:2)
Re:Next april fools (Score:1)
Re:Next april fools (Score:1)
Re:Next april fools (Score:2)
Worst ever April disaster (Score:3, Interesting)
with that evil color scheme and having to disable the foolish css after every reload or link I quit my fav pretense of being busy entirely.
Which in fact raised my productivity but looking at the number of comments I feel I wasnt the only one to do so.
What about taking
What happened? (Score:1)
A Hoax!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Regarding tagging... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Regarding tagging... (Score:5, Informative)
One problem... (Score:2)
Thank God Its Mostly Over(TM) (Score:2)
I liked 2 or 3 years ago on slashdot, when they still made slashdot look... normal, and act normal. Ya know, like posting news, to obvious fakes, but still posting news. Last year's dupe on dupe sucked, and the pink ponies was stupid. April Fools should be about hoaxes and practicle jokes, and turning the SITE PINK DOESNT COUNT!@!!!@!23113 OMG PONIE RUSH!
Google Browser is planning a browser.... (Score:1)
No RFC this time? (Score:1)
Re:No RFC this time? (Score:1)
Anyone got a link? Let us all know.
Re:No RFC this time? (Score:1)
Re:No RFC this time? (Score:1)
Tagging (Score:1)
I appreciate the people who rebutted with "straight" tags, but honestly, how juevenille.
gay, wikipedia, ponies, straight (Score:2)
I hate April Fools. (Score:2)
Notice (Score:2)
Slashdot announced that it would start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
Guess only half of that was true.
The presence of humor on Slashdot (Score:1)
That sentence probably disapp
Timezones anyone (Score:2)
original ap 1 site? (Score:1)